This will also happen, the film adaptation of the novel by Milena Busquets, focuses, like the literary original, on the grieving process of the protagonist, Blanca, after the death of her mother, a key figure in the construction of her identity. The character, played by Marina Salas (the most convincing of the proposal), is inspired by the author herself. Maria Ripoll's film aims to convey how a woman touched by death reconnects to life through sex, in the specific environment of privileged Barcelona residents who spend their summers in Cadaqués. In a sketchy way, This will also happen It hints at the underlying conflict of a more generational connection, that of the children of the misnamed Gauche Divine, whose parents turned their lives into a party to which neither fatherhood nor motherhood were invited. A handful of ideas that would crystallize in a specific tone, that of lightness as a style and mark of class, that lightness masked by those who believe they don't need to demonstrate how profound and well-read they are—it's already noted that we are dealing with someone who grew up "on the knees of Umberto Eco."

Marina Salas (Cornellà de Llobregat, 1988) was without much hope in the casting of the film This will also happen, the adaptation of the novel by Milena Busquets which opens this Friday. The lead role, alter ego of the author, is the daughter of a great editor (Esther Tusquets was Busquets's mother) who grew up in a privileged environment, surrounded by intellectuals and artists and spending summers at the family home in Cadaqués. of Milena Busquets". And yet, her complex and credible work is one of the film's best assets. "Distances are bridged by empathizing and leaving prejudices behind," she adds. "In the end, we are the same: we all die, we all shit, and we all cry.

Marina Salas (Cornellà de Llobregat, 1988) was without much hope in the casting of the film This will also happen, the adaptation of the novel by Milena Busquets which opens this Friday. The lead role, alter ego The author is the daughter of a famous editor (Esther Tusquets was Busquets's mother) who grew up in a privileged environment, surrounded by intellectuals and artists and spending her summers at the family home in Cadaqués. "My universe is the opposite," Salas explains. "I'm from Cornellà and my grandfather was a shepherd. I thought they wouldn't take me for playing Milena Busquets." And yet, her complex and credible work is one of the film's greatest assets. "Distances are bridged by empathizing and leaving prejudices behind," she adds. "In the end, we're all the same: we all die, we all shit, and we all cry. And that doesn't mean losing our class consciousness."

"The presenter is much popu"If not, there wouldn't be so many of us today," one of the more than two hundred people who had filled the garden of the La Central bookstore in Raval to the brim said to his companion. "Do you mean they don't come for Milena? She's also very famous," replied the woman crowded next to her. A few minutes late, Milena Busquets and the singer Rigoberta Bandini - alias of Paula Ribó - appeared to chat for a while about The sweet existence (Amsterdam in Catalan and Anagrama in Spanish), the new book by the writer who became a phenomenon thanks to This will also happen (2015), translated into more than twenty languages, in which she spied on a group of holidaymakers from Cadaqués through a narrative voice somewhere between frivolous and transcendent, sharing a good part of the author's life experiences.